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P&O will continue to provide a conventional livestock carriage service until the end of October. We are keen to press on and put the service in place at that point.
That is not built into the review process. On one level, I take your point that it makes no difference. In lawyerspeak, however, we would talk about the onus shifting or the dynamic changing.
At some point in the future, according to the proper processes of the Parliament, the minister will have the opportunity to talk about the Executive's proposed bill, but now is not the time for that.
That was a bit of a schoolmistress scolding, as if the matter was not her direct responsibility.The truth is that the copious press releases by the minister and her predecessor, Henry McLeish, have solved nothing—it was all talk and no action.